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Published  bi-monthly  by  the  College  at  Mount  Vernon.  Iowa.  Entered  as  second 
class  matter,  at  the  post  office  at  Mount  Vernon,  Iowa, 


Vol.  XVI 


Mount  Vernon,  Iowa,  April,  1915 


No.  6 


Annual  Music  Festival  Number 


Julia  Culp 

The  World’s  Greatest  Lieder  Singer 


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First  Concert 

Thursday  Evening,  April  29th,  at  8:00  o’clock 

Madam  Julia  Culp,  Mezzo-Soprano 

Madam  Julia  Culp,  the  young  lieder  singer  of  Berlin,  has  taken 
only  twelve  years  to  conquer  the  world  and  to  win  the  place  of  the 
foremost  singer  of  songs  of  this  generation.  Her  golden  mezzo-so¬ 
prano  voice  is  pronounced  by  critics  the  most  beautiful  on  the  concert 
stage  today.  In  its  range  and  power,  its  resonance  and  roundness, 
its  evenness  and  warmth,  it  is  one  of  the  great  voices  of  all  musical 
history.  Culp’s  softest  tones  are  lovely  beyond  belief,  while  her  for¬ 
tissimo  is  compelling  with  its  sustained  Caruso  force.  Culp  is  also  a 
consummate  artist,  expressing  convincingly  all  shades  of  feeling  from 
intense  dramatic  passion  to  the  tenderest  wistfulness.  She  much  re¬ 
sembles  Schumann-Heink  in  the  power  of  her  personality,  in  her 
greatheartedness,  in  the  force  with  which  she  at  once  grips  the  soul. 
An  ardent  temperament  capable  of  the  deepest  feelings,  dowered  with 
the  faculty  of  expressing  itself  in  the  richest  of  voices  and  with  the 
subtlest  and  surest  art — that  is  Julia  Culp. 

It  will  be  noted  with  especial  satisfaction  that  instead  of  appear¬ 
ing  in  only  a  few  numbers  on  a  miscellaneous  concert  program,  Culp 
and  her  talented  accompanist  Coenraad  Bos,  give  us  an  entire  even¬ 
ing,  singing  the  songs  of  various  nations  and  of  many  moods, — the 
colorful  tone-poems  of  Schubert,  Brahms  and  Beethoven,  and  English 
songs  as  exquisite  perhaps  if  not  so  famous. 

Program 


Im  Abendroth  .  Schubert 

Die  Post  .  Schubert 

Standchen  .  Schubert 

Ave  Maria  .  Schubert 

Adelaide  .  Beethoven 

Faithful  Johnnie  .  Beethoven 

The  Cottage  Maid  .  Beethoven 


Romance 
To  Elise 
Pierrette 


.  Chopin 

.  Beethoven 

.  Chaminade 

Mr.  Coenraad  V.  Bos 


Drink  to  Me  Only  .  Old  English 

When  I  Bring  Coloured  Toys  . John  Alden  Carpenter 

I’ve  Been  Roaming  .  Old  English 

Mignonette  .  Weckerlin 


Vor  dem  Fenster  .  Brahms 

Standchen  .  Brahms 

Der  Schmied  .  Brahms 

Wiegenlied  . Brahms 


Mme.  Culp  uses  the  Steinway  piano  exclusively 
Coenraad  V.  Bos  at  the  piano 


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Chicago  Symphony  Orchestra 


'A  ' 


The  demand  for  good  music  keeps  pace  with  the  increasing  mus¬ 
ical  education  of  the  people.  The  result  is  so  great  a  demand  for  the 
Chicago  Symphony  Orchestra,  from  cities  of  size,  that  it  becomes  in¬ 
creasingly  necessary  for  them  to  eliminate  all  but  the  most  desirable 
engagements.  No  other  town  and  college  community  of  the  size  of 
Mount  Vernon  is  longer  honored  by  the  appearance  of  this  orchestra. 
They  have  been  coming  to  Cornell  for  fifteen  years. 

Have  you  ever  heard  them?  If  you  have  not  you  have  failed 
signally  to  appreciate  a  great  opportunity.  Avail  yourself  of  this 
privilege  now. 

Cornell  College  presents  to  the  patrons  of  its  May  Music  Festival 
the  best  music  in  the  world  performed  by  the  best  and  most  capable 
artists  in  the  world.  The  programs  are  of  such  perfect  artistic  bal¬ 
ance  as  to  be  above  criticism.  Each  program  is  perfectly  contrasted, 
there  is  endless  variety,  and  yet  a  symmetry  which  produces  a  per¬ 
fect  whole.  , , 

The  appearance  of  this  orchestra  with  Ihe  leading  artists  of  the 
day  as  soloists  gives  to  the  concerts  a  standard  which  would  be  hard 
to  excel  anywhere. 


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Second  Concert 

Friday  Afternoon,  April  30th,  2:30  o’clock 

Francis  Macmillen,  Violinist 

It  has  been  proven  many  times  in 
America  that  of  all  violinists  none 
makes  a  greater  appeal  to  the  mus¬ 
ically  educated  and  uneducated  alike 
than  Macmillen.  The  qualities  that 
one  desires  most  in  a  violinist,  Mac¬ 
millen  possesses  to  an  unusual  degree. 

Under  the  spell  of  his  charming  per¬ 
sonality  and  fascinating  fire  and  tem¬ 
perament,  each  auditor  is  led  to  feel 
that  he  is  a  personal  friend  with 
whom  the  artist  desires  to  share  all 
the  enjoyment  of  playing  and  inter¬ 
preting  a  great  work.  It  is  through 
his  tone  that  Macmillen  makes  his 
greatest  impression  and  critics  de¬ 
spair  of  adequately  describing  it, 
saying  that  one  can  only  know  and  appreciate  its  purity  by  hearing 
the  artist  play.  Few  who  attended  Macmillen’s  festival  concert  of 
four  years  ago  have  forgotten  his  magnetic  playing  and  in  bringing 
him  again  to  Mt.  Vernon  the  Festival  offers  you  an  afternoon  with 
one  of  the  few  great  geniuses  of  the  violin,  an  afternoon  that  cannot 
fail  of  enjoyment  to  everyone,  and  that  will  not  soon  be  forgotten. 

Program 


First  Movement  from  .the  Concerto  .  Tschaikowsky 

allegro  moderato 

a.  Andante  .  Lalo 

b.  Passacaglia  .  Handel-Thomson 

c.  Seranade  .  Arensky 

d.  Spanish  Dance  in  C  Major  .  Sarasate 

a.  Andantino  . .  Padre  Martini 

b.  Humoreske  . .  Tor  Aulin 

c.  Ave  Maria  .  Schubert- Wilhelm j 

d.  Tango  .  Fernandez  Arbos 

Andante  and  Finale  from  the  concerto . Mendelssohn 


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For  soloist  with  the  Chicago 
Symphony  Orchestra  what  bet¬ 
ter  or  more  popular  pianist 
than  Ganz  could  be  offered. 
This  eminent  artist  has  played 
during  the  present  season  with 
all  of  America’s  great  orches¬ 
tras,  and  in  almost  every  city 
and  school  of  any  prominence 
and  he  will  come  acknowledged 
everywhere  as  one  of  the  lead¬ 
ing  pianists  of  the  world.  As 
an  interpreter  of  Liszt  he  is 
unsurpassed  and  the  perform¬ 
ance  of  the  wonderful  A  ma¬ 
jor  concerto  will  have  an  un¬ 
usual  interest.  The  opportunity 
of  hearing  a  pianist  of  so  great 
reputation  with  orchestra  has  not  only  never  before  been  given  the 
patrons  of  the  Cornell  Festival,  but  is  one  offered  by  but  few  festi¬ 
vals  of  the  country. 

Third  Concert 

Friday  Evening,  April  30th,  at  8:00  o’clock 

The  Chicago  Symphony  Orchestra 

Mr.  Clarence  Whitehill,  Soloists 

Program 

Overture,  “Liebesfriiling”  . . .  Georg  Schumann 

Aria 

Suite,  “Piemontessi,”  .  Sinigaglia 

Over  Fields  and  Woods 
Rustic  Dance 

In  Montibis  Sanctis 
Carnival  Piemontesi 

Aria 

Hungarian  Rhapsody  No.  12 .  Liszt 

Intermission 

Wagner 

Overture  to  “Rienzi” 

Voices  of  the  Forest  from  “Siegfried” 

Dreams — A  Study  to  “Tristan  and  Isolde” 

Orchestration  by  Theodore  Thomas 

Wotan’s  Farewell  and  Magic  Fire  Scene  from  “Die  Waikure” 

Wotan:  Mr.  Whitehill 


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The  Quartette  this  year  is  composed  ef  Olive  Kline,  Margaret 
Keyes,  Lambert  Murphy  and  Clarence  Whitehill. 

We  are  exceedingly  fortunate  in  securing  such  a  fine  combination 
of  singers.  The  quartette  is  selected  by  the  Chicago  Symphony  Or¬ 
chestra  management  to  travel  with  them  in  their  spring  tours,  they 
are  required  to  sing  numerous  choral  works,  a  task  that  requires  the 
broadest  training  and  the  soloists  that  are  able  to  do  such  work  ef¬ 
fectively  are  the  exception. 

Probably  the  greatest  singer  of  the  four  is  Mr.  Clarence  White- 
hill,  of  the  Metropolitan  Opera  Co.,  the  greatest  Wagnerian  singer  in 
the  world  today.  He  has  a  full  baritone  voice,  capable  of  infinite  var¬ 
iety  of  a  fine  dramatic  expression.  Mr.  Whitehill  will  sing  a  number 
of  arias  on  the  Friday  evening  program  while  the  whole  quartette  ap¬ 
pears  in  “A  Tale  of  Old  Japan”  on  Saturday  evening. 


Clarence  Whitehill 
Baritone 


Lambert  Murphy 
Tenor 


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Fourth  and  Fifth  Concerts 

Saturday  Afternoon,  May  1st,  2:30  o’clock 

The  Chicago  Symphony  Orchestra 

Frederick  Stock,  Conductor 
Mr.  Rudolph  Ganz,  Soloist 

Program 


Overture  “Othello,”  .  Dvorak 

Symphony  E  flat  (Kochel  543),  .  Mozart 

Adagio-Allegro 
Andante  con  moto 
Menuetto 
Finale 


Symphonic  Poem  “Don  Juan,”  Opus  20,  .  Strauss 

Concerto  for  Pianoforte  No.  2,  A  Major,  .  Liszt 

Scene  Dansante,  Opus  81,  . .  Glazaunow 


Saturday  Evening,  May  1st,  8:00  o’clock 

The  Chicago  Symphony  Orchestra 


Soloists: 

Miss  Olive  Kline 
Miss  Margaret  Keyes 
Mr.  Lambert  Murphy 
Mr.  Clarence  Whitehill 


Program 

A  Tale  of  Old  Japan . S.  Coleridge-Taylor 

Chorus,  Soloists  and  Orchestra 
Horace  A.  Miller,  Conductor 

Intermission 


“The  Spinning  Wheel  of  Omphale,” . ... .  Saint-Saens 

Two  Indian  Sketches — 

a.  The  Indian  Flute  . . .  Horace  A.  Miller 

b.  From  the  Wikiup  .  Horace  A.  Miller 

a.  Mock  Morris 

b.  Shepherd’s  Hey,  .  Grainger 

Overture  “Academic  Festival,”  .  Brahms 


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Single  Concerts — Thursday  evening,  $1.50;  Friday  af¬ 
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TIME  TABLE 


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No.  6  Chicago  Local  daily . 11:41p.m. 

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